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With President Obama’s poll numbers sinking, Republicans are feeling more confident about 2012—and eying a new crop of potential candidates, Politico reports. Among them: MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, a former GOP congressman who’s slammed Obama but is also ready to criticize his own party, and Gen. David Petraeus, head of the US Central Command. “It's kind of a time for another Eisenhower,” says former Sen. Bob Dole.

“Several GOP candidates are coming to the view that the way to run against Obama is not to out-Obama Obama with flash or sizzle,” says a former Bush official. That in mind, some on the right are supporting the “unflashy” Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Politico notes. And the name Dick Cheney has come up—but he won’t run, says his daughter. She'd love for it to be plausible, she says. “But no.”

GOP can't win. They're outnumbered by people who have been victimized by GOP ideology.

cognitivefilter

Sep 5, 2009 8:50 AM CDT

i disapprove...seems awfully similar to a military dictatorship at this point in time

Kenja

Sep 5, 2009 2:56 AM CDT

That isn't necessarily true cornelison. The GOP just hasn't had anyone step up to the plate that hasn't been corrupted by life in Washington DC. There is a nomination out there, clean and pure, but you won't hear who it is until next year.